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Performing Arts Lectures: The Arts and Humanities in the STEM-Focused Academy

COLLABORATION. OPPORTUNITY. ENGAGEMENT. What has traditionally been the purview of an education rooted in the arts and humanities is now being claimed by science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM). If education in STEM majors can cultivate the same skills that the arts and humanities has historically considered their own, and if STEM education can promote social justice as well as or better than the arts and humanities, what is the place of the latter in contemporary academia?